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...holds a big advantage. Some Democrats approached McConnell quietly, he told TIME, with private pleas to "stop this from happening" and "pull some rabbit out of the hat one more time." Wellstone's amendment was the ticket. "I viewed it as another unconstitutional ornament we could put on this tree," McConnell says. "I was trying to get as many problems into the bill I could, so that if we ended up in court, we had a target-rich environment." He went to colleagues and said, "This is grotesquely unconstitutional. Please vote...
Holidays could be a dreary time aboard Mir, especially for those from the officially atheist U.S.S.R., which had eliminated many of them anyway. On New Year's Eve, crews were permitted to set up a small, nonsectarian tree, which did little to improve the Das Boot ambience. To lift their mood further, they would break out the ship's vacuum cleaner and take turns riding it around the tree--the poor man's jet pack...
...Bush-Cheney crowd, weaned on Big Oil and elected with Enron dollars, the worst "adverse consequences" are the economic kind, in which Big Business suffers at the hands of tree-huggers. For Republicans, the energy crisis - a term that Democrats have given up objecting to - demands more supply, more fuel for the U.S. economic engine. More drilling, more production, more oil, more coal. The only thing it demands less of is "onerous regulation" and environmental extremism...
...Fort Gibson, Okla. Seventh-grader Seth Trickey was a religious, straight-A student. But then, police say, he came to school, stood under a tree, pulled out his father's 9-mm semiautomatic handgun and fired at least 15 rounds into a group of classmates. Four were wounded. WARNING SIGNS A juvenile court heard that Trickey was receiving psychological counseling and was deeply influenced by the Columbine shootings. Psychologists said he was obsessed by the military, in particular General George S. Patton, and the shootings may have been Trickey's way of proving he could hold his own in battle...
...protestors approached Loeb House, HUPD officers pointed to a tree in the yard and told the students that they could not move up the walk beyond the tree...